In preparation for the event, I've been making a TONNE of new things. These things include: wallets, trees! clutches, coin pouches, and insect pillows. The insect pillows and wallets are exciting me the most.. I've never made such a large amount at the same time before (15 wallets!) and the moth and beetle pillows are a new project. I made a beetle pillow for an assignment in second year and they're so much fun to make!

This batch of wallets are the last to get these kinds of flaps... they're way to difficult to turn out.. but they make cute finger puppets!

I cleaned up my sewing room (again) last weekend.. it seems like it's always getting so damn messy! I'm blaming it on the size of the room :)

I made some additions as well. (Click the images to see larger sizes)

I love the Mac Plus parade in the hallway leading up to my sewing room (which is in the back of our house and was previously an underused office/room-that-leads-to-the-deck)


Here's the biggest wall and the door that leads to the deck. I love leaving that door open on nice days!


Here's a shot when the door is closed. I think I'm going to make some curtains for the little window on the door (off-white eyelet material?)


My main workspace. I just put up that little shelf for my ipod/speakers/pins/pens/etc and rearranged the entire thing so I could hang my lovely spool holder (which now, thanks to a trip to my mom's house is totally full of new spools of thread)


Here's another shot of the long wall - I've hung up my craft show sign that I made and added some hooks from Home Depot to the wall to display my things


Oh and the ultimate gift.. Here's the story:
Thursday night I came home from work and went out for a jog (yes, I've started jogging... mostly walking haha) and came back, had a shower/etc. I was watching a bit of tv and talking with Aidan for about, oh I don't know... forty-five minutes or so.. And Aidan says to me, "Oh I picked up your laundry from downstairs for you" (referring to some fabric I had washed). So i went to go take a peek and fold it up and what did I find?


The boy bought the girl a serger!!! (and kept it a secret ALL DAY from me!)
It's a Janome MyLock 204D and I think I'm in love. I've only had a chance to play with it a bit and I'm trying to figure out the tension/threading (4 threads.. ah!) and everything, but I LOVE it.

Now I'm going to go get some lunch and start/continue to work on some things for tomorrow's show.